Susan Howe’s books of poetry include The Europe of Trusts: Selected Poems, Pierce-Arrow, and The Midnight (all New Directions). She has also authored several books of literary criticism, My Emily Dickinson (North Atlantic Books) and The Birth-Mark: Unsettling the Wilderness in American Literary History (Wesleyan).

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